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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 14 – The Three Messages
About that time, proclamations of fasts and

seasons of prayer for the return of the Holy

Spirit were sent out in the religious papers.

Even the Philadelphia Sun of Nov. 11, 1844,

had the following: “The undersigned ministers

and members of various denominations in

Philadelphia and vicinity, solemnly believing

that the present signs of the times — the

spiritual dearth of our churches generally and

the extreme evils in the world around us —

seem to call loudly on all Christians for a

special season of prayer, do therefore hereby

agree, by divine permission, to unite in a week

of special prayer to Almighty God, for the

outpouring of his Holy Spirit on our city, our

country, and the world.”

Professor Finney, editor of the Oberlin

Evangelist, in February, 1844, said: “We have